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Chicago examiner vol x no i a m sunday c * * * Chicago july 4 1909 sunday price five cents fourth begins sane in Chicago still tetanus serum is held ready police ambulances prepared to render immediate assist ance to wounded house burned already folk dances to be held in lincoln park fireworks forbidden to-day promptly at midnight Chicago began the celebration of the sanest fourth of july in its history wrapped almost in silence was the city the usual big saturday night crowds were on the street the merrymakers were out the evening before independence day al ways has been the time when patriotic en thusiasm ran the highest and especially was this always the case when that evening happened to be saturday evening but last night all was different only here and there downtown was heard the desultory popping of the noisy spitting firecracker no revolver shots punctuated the night air no roman candles or sky rockets blazed a patchway across the heav ens as they always have done heretofore in ihc residence districts practically the same quiet prevailed city quiet as country town Chicago comparatively was more quiet than a small country town it was a fourth of july ushered in with less noise and with less enthusiasm than any that liu e gone before judging from last night Chicago is going to make good on the proposition to cele brate independence day of 1900 in a per fectly sober serious manner what sunday will bring forth in the way of celebrations and whether the small boy and also the boy of larger growth can curb his enthusiasm and patriotism on monday when the real celebration takes place are questions for the future this ir the fourth of july but don't shoot , to-morrow is the only day on which it is permissible to shoot off anything and if you must shoot then remember that a grain of powder beneath the skin is more than liable to bring on tetanus that te tanus kills and that the health department has been working overtime to conserve the population of Chicago and give heed to its dth of july warnings all signs point to a less noisy and fatal celebration of the nation's birth than chi cago has ever experienced thanks to the efforts of the sane fourth association and the new laws forbidding the sale or use of high explosives toy pistols detonating canes blank cartridges and other things dangerous to life and limb the police promise to enforce the new prohibitive laws without fear or favor but there were evidences last night in various parts of the city that the proclamation limiting the discharge of fireworks to mon day was being rather freely ignored premature celebration burns home premature celebration resulted in the destruction of a two-story frame house at 2145 west thirty-eighth street by fire and the narrow escape from death of willie brady nine years old who lives with his parents iu the rear of the building the boy was playing with a number of companions in the back yard they had obtained firecrackers from a neighboring store and were shooting them off when a spark ignited a bunch of hay that was scat tered underneath the house and about the yard at sight of the flames the boy ran about trying to extinguish the blaze before noti fying any one and his clothing caught fire his cries attracted the attention of his par ents who smothered the blazing clothes the boy will recover the building was damaged to the extent of 3,000 acting chief of police schuettler has is sued orders to all commanding officers however to spread plain clothes men throughout their districts to watch for vio lators of the law will watch fireworks dealers they are expected to arrest all prema ture celebrants and to keep a close watch on fireworks dealers any crowd to-night and to-morrow may contain a detective on the alert for persons using proscribed noise makers ignorance of the law will be no excuse for old or young eight health department ambulances will be supplied with tetauus anti-toxin to-mor row the serum also will be for sale at cost at the department offices 15 madi son street persons too poor to pay for the antitoxin will be given it free through their physicians it may be obtained at the harrison street hyde park south chi cago stock yards desplaines street west Chicago avenue Chicago avenue and shef field avenue tolice stations many furies will work to keep this year's celebration sane the power ot the pulpit has been in voked and every pastor and sunday school superintendent is expected to spread the anti-shooting gospel to-day many eele bi'iiticas out of the city which do not in clude fireworks will be held to-morrow two concerts in lincoln park the lincoln park board has lent a hand by announcing two concerts for monday by johnny hand's band also there will be athletic games dancing contests and hag drills one of the features will be a folk dince participated in by swedish dean twins escape death in thrilling auto race as car crashes into a phone pole ; cecil serre probably fatally hurt in trying to avoid - big roadster new york july 3 ln a thrilling auto-j mobile race near stamford conn early to-day betweeeu the famous dean twins of Chicago cecil serre son of dr j e serre of 63 west thirty-eighth street man hattan was seriously injured the acci dent happened at the ehd of the contest when young serre who was piloting one of the cars crashed into a telephone pole to avoid collision with a huge roadster miss evelyn dean who sat at the driver's side suffered from shock but her physi cians declared she had uot received au in jur v the race took place in sound bench ave nue the entrants were a large limousine owned by walter hughes of new york and a massive touring car the property of edgar gibs murphy mr serre was driv ing mr murphy's machine iu company with miss dean who with her sister became famous throughout america because of their exceptional beauty and charm of man ner mr murphy was the other occupant in the big limousine were mr and mrs hughes the latter the closest of the dean sisters the couple have a cottage at sound beach and mr murphy spent sev eral days there as their guest the two parties went out for a short run late fri day night and during the course of the evening the question of the superiority of the respective cars arose twins urge pilots on mr murphy boasted that his was a car of speed and mr hughes declared he did not believe his could beat mr serre volunteered to pilot the murphy machine j for a race and the younger miss dean volunteered to sit at his side they had j been through some wooded lanes and as j both machines were coining into sound | beach avenue mrs hughes yelled out to j her husband to turn on his speed and miss ! dean egged mr serre on for more than a mile the two cars went side by side passing everything in their path and leaving huge clouds of dust in j their wake they were going at a terri-j fie rate of speed until the end of th ave-j nue was reached the street terminates in another that [ makes a right angle with it there are two sharp turns at the intersection but in | the darkness mr seere who had left the hughes party behind discerned another i roadster coming cast his pace was so great he could not turn out of the way ; mr hughes switched bis car westward and brought it to a stop just as the third tour ; ing vehicle whisked by mr serre swerved suddenly in an effort to avoid what seemed [ an inevitable collision in doing so he shot the machine through a small trian gular park covered at the extreme end â€¢ with shrubbery and bushes a few feet j beyond there stood the telephone pole into \ which the vehicle crashed at great speed i serre thrown twenty feet h mr serre was thrown fully twenty feet ; ' while mr murphy and the young woman ! landed just in front of the car immcdl ately scores of people hurried to the scene from nearby and mr hughes ran ! to the home of a neighboring physician : for aid miss dean it was found after examina tion had simply been shocked and she ' took a seat in her brother-in-law's car mr murphy recovered almost instantly and aided the physician in treating young serre it was found he had a dislocated shoul : der two broken ribs many bruises and ' probably a slight fracture of the skull it was said to-night that his chances ap ' peared to be excellent for recovery but it ! would require several days to determine ' whether he had suffered any internal in ' juries if so the physicians believe he 'â– may die the car in which the party | rode was smashed to bits these are the famous former chi cago beauties who urged on auto race that nearly ended in death forgan denounces consolidation tale amazed at publication that first national has an in terest in merger president james b forgan of the first national bank made emphatic denial yes terday that his bank was considering the absorption of the bankers national you may say for me and please state it strongly that ail printed and verbal re ports of this bank taking over the bankers national are pure fabrication said mr forgan in plain english the originators of these reports are lying on friday the tribune and the record herald printed a story that the first na tional was considering taking over the bankers national and that negotiations were in progress after interviewing mr forgan and receiving flat denials that the first national was meddling in the projected merger between the bankers and the commercial national the tribune and the record-herald came out again yes terday and reiterated the tale this aroused mr forgan to the foregoing ex pression we have received no offer from the bankers and we have made none he further stated there have been no negotiations tentative or otherwise be tween us we the first national for our part have never thought of such a deal much less entertained it and what i now say to you i said to roberts of the commercial national over tlie telephone as a warning not to be in fluenced in his negotiations with the bank ers people we appear to have been brought into the deal by some cunning person to hasten the trade on between the commercial and the bankers very likely the disseminators of the report thought better terms could be made if it was sup posed that the first national also was a bidder we have no more intention of getting the bankers national bank than we have of taking over the business of the angto l.'hinese bank of kong kong i was called up by the Chicago trib une at my home last night and told that the economist would print figures that had been submitted with a view of a merger between the bankers and our selves i wouder how the tribune knew what the economist was going to say 1 told the tribune exactly what i am say ing now again the record-herald stated yester day that the hankers directors had held a meeting at which terms to be submitted to us were formulated that it had been intimated to the directory we would con sider such a proposition i am amazed that these things should be printed in the face of authoritative denial illustrative of mr forgau's interest in the merger is his departure yesterday for a month's vacation in northern michigan no further steps were taken yesterday toward a unification of the commercial and the bankers president roberts of the commercial said no meetings would be held until about the middle of this week those who have been in negotiation re iterated the opuiion that the deal would be cousummutedsafter a few more confer ences v king's insurance raised ordered to marten imil looks so bnd companies fear hisk special cable to the sunday examiner london july 3 as a res>lt of the con sultation between dr ott and the king's medical advisers it has been decided that the king shall go to marienbad immediate ly after the cowes regatta his majesty recently impressed upon the officers of the royal household the necessity of saving himself and the queen all unnecessary fatigue those who have seen the king during the past week have remarked how much he had failed iu appearance his deterioration in health is reflected on the insurance bourses which now insist on a ou per cent premium on his life whereas a few months ago only 23 per cent was asked five in endurance walk loir limit put oil thlrty-five-mile jauut to r.lsrjn a in an effort to establish the extent of their vitality and endurance five young men started from . irving park boulevard and robey street for a thirty-flve-miie walk last night at 9:30 o'clock their ob jective point being elgin all five started with the determination to cover the dis tance inside of nine hours they are selraer g olsen theodore dillington ieorge nelson axel nelson and theodore olsen electrocuted in midair woman aeronaut canght in wires dnrllij ascension lowell mich july 3.â€”mrs dell melx well an aeronaut of grand hapids was electrocuted to-day before a holiday crowd while making an ascension here her body caught among high tension wires as the balloon rose and was torn away from it tho woman was dead when rescuers reached the sceue gingles jury cries as girl tells plot lacemaker swears miss bar rette tried to sell her to french lick man new witness is found i , _ says she was hired to smug gle lace in accused girl's room r the bars in the gingles case were let down yesterday klla gingles the little irish ineeuiaker who is on trial in judge brentano's court charged with larceny told amid sobs probably the most sensa tional story that a judge and jury ever listened to in Chicago under the questioning of her counsel p h o'donnell the eighteen-year-old girl re lated the tale of her alleged mistreatment in a room in the wellington hotel on wa basih avenue on the evening of january 4 last it was a story involving hiss agnes bar rette proprietor of the lace shop in the wellington hotel building mrs cecelia kenyon the mystery of whose sudden death in a road house on stony island ave nue a week ago has not been cleared up and a man who up to this time is nameless it was a story for the most part that cannot be printed it caused the judge i to hide his face behind his handkerchief it caused tears to flow down the cheeks of more than one of the jurors it was told only with tho greatest hesitation women formed a large part of the crowd in the little courtroom they drank in ev i ery word of the testimony of the laee | maker men blushed as they listened to it j reveals white slave plot | the girl told in addition to the story of the attack upon ber in the room in i the wellington of the attempt which miss j barrette and mrs kenyon are alleged to j have roads to induce her to go to french ! i.ick springs ind there to become prac i ticalfy a white slave they told me i would not have to i work said the witness and that i would j have lots of money and could always wear ' good clothes miss barrette promised me ia black itress of hers if i would go i to trench lick yet when willi bad adjourned for the day witli hie girl witness still undergoing | a grilling cross-examination at the hands iof assistant state's attorney short that ; official said j i nm convinced that the sensational i story that etta gingles told in court was faked up either by herself or by some in genious person acting for her miss bar rette will take the witness stand and will swear that the story is made out of whole cloth she will deny every specific alle gation from start to finish i expect to be able to prove that the gingles girl has a reputation for untruthfulness and will j have witnesses to swear that they would j not believe her under oath the assistant state's attorney took miss i ( jingles in hand after she bad told her i story he fired one question after another ! at the trembling girl on the witness stand | he succeeded in getting her much con fused and in having her involve herself in a maze of contradictory statements miss barrette petrified miss gingles told again the story of her life since coming to america from ireland she told of her places of employment and of how she finally had secured work with miss barrette then she told the story of the lace on the charge of stealing which she is now on trial but the girl declared that it was she who had beeu robbed and not miss barrette and this led up to the sensational story of the night in the hotel that she told during the latter part of the young girl's testimony miss barrette as she heard one accusation after another leveled at her sat like one petrified her face was blanched her eyes were staring she made no sijfn no move after the adjournment of court until tuesday morning attorney o'donnell unexpectedly received confirmation of the statement that repeatedly has been made by klla gingles that she was the victim of a plot and that instead of having robbed miss barrette the latter robbed her a woman who said her first name was margaret but who would not give her last name called up mr o'donnell and told the following story i am the woman who was hired by miss barrette to take a bundle containing lace to miss gingles room either on jan uary 2 or 3 miss barrette paid me 5 for doing the job and sent a man with me in addition to the 5 she offered me a trip to st louis i had known her for some time and had often done odd jobs for her when i took the lace to the room on la salle avenue i did not know to whose room i was going nor did i know ella gingles it was not until i saw the story in the papers some time later that i knew what i had done takes lace to girl's room how did you get into the room asked mr o'donnell the man who was with me went in and i followed was the answer my instructions were to go with the man and take the bundle wÂ«s any one with miss barrette at the time she hired you to do the job yes there was a woman about forty five years old v.ith gray hair in the room the story was told to the attorney amid sobs the lawyer repeatedly asked the woman at the telephone to become a wit ness for ella giugles i can't i can't she repeated time and again i am going to be married and if it was known tihat i was iu any way promise harriman years of activity vienna specialists tell him they can conquer finan cier's nerve trouble no danger at present x-ray expert however di agnoses the case as one of slight paralysis vienna july 3.â€”professor adolf struem : pell visits e h harriman every third day at semmering the health resort in the austrian alps at the first examination the famous special â€¢. ist on nervous diseases learned that mr harriman was suffering from nervous prostratiou which however had been im proved by his voyage and his journeying in europe professor struempell also saw that some thing else than nerve fag affects mr hai rininn who has a slight difficulty iu mov ing his legs and walks stiffly so struem _ pell called in professor holzkuecht a spe cialist in making examinations with the roetengeu rays holzkuecht examined the millionaire's spinal column to learn if dis ease bad caused any alteration in the structure of his vertebrae he saw plainly changes in the vertebrae which affect the nerves issuing from the spinal cord and so cause primarily the slight paralysis of the patient's lower limbs promises prostration cure struempell promises mr harriman to ] j cure him of nervous prostration which of course is the lesser of his two ailments i the cold water treatment and the tonic air j of semmering which is 3,000 feet above sea level will brace mr harriman up and he will soon be able to work as hard as he pleases already rest has worked won ders toward restoring him professor struempell tells mr harriman frnnkty that his slight paralysis m-iy be 1-elleved but not cured electric baths carbonic acid gas and mineral baths will effect this relief the professor hopes and he assures mr harriman that even if the i paralysis progresses it will do so very slowly and need not affect his general | health when mr harriman took his first elee jtrlc bath to-day at semmering he said jjesttngly to the hotel physician dr siegel i if yon are going to kill me you had j better let me sell my bonds first as after my death they would not be worth so i i much then you can tell my secretary i miller to go ahead and write my biogra phy it's fashionable now yon know for i everybody w'ho has made a few millions to j write their confessions " feeling better says patient harriman says he is now feeling better than ever he will take electric and car bonic acid baths daily the latter is sim ply a warm bath containing two pounds of carbonic acid the electric baths are ap i plied in a tub of warm water | professor struempell has instructed mr | harriman to obtain all the rest possible j and to eschew society so the financier | patient is not receiving any visitors when the weather permits mr and mrs i harriman and secretary miller drive into | the country mr miller went to badga stein to-day where he engaged a suite of eleveu rooms in the hotel de 1 europe when mr harriman was in vienna a day or two ago secretary reeves of the ameri can embassy offered to present him to emperor francis joseph mr harriman declined the honor because his physicians had instructed him to avoid everything tending to create any excitement judge dies at ball game christopher masree snccnmhs to apo plexy at pittshnrgr pittsburg pa july 3.â€”former judge christopher magee one of the best known jurists in pennsylvania died suddenly from apoplexy at the baseball game between Chicago and pittsburg here to-day he had attended the game accompanied by his son walter p magee and christopher ma gee 11 and during the practice of the pittsburg players complained of feeling ill he soon became unconscious and died de spite the efforts of dr bird the chib phy sician deny ben franklin honor french declnre that n physician invented the l.i|_litniii_v rod paris july 3 france has declined to recognize benjamin franklin as the in ventor of the lightning rod claiming that that honor belongs to n french physician named jacques de romas who announced in 1750 two years before franklin a means of diverting lightning the french academy of sciences in 1764 recognized romas claim to priority and now presi dent fallieres has accepted the chairman ship of a committee formed to erect a monument to romas as the inventor of the lightning rod james hazen hyde on trial in paris hyde again on trial in auto in jury case former insurance man once sentenced gets seemingly indefinite delay paris july 3 james hazeu hyde of now york formerly vice president of the i equitable life assurance society who was i condemned on may 1 last in default to j serve a month in prison and to pay a fine ' of 100 for injuring a man with his auto ! mobile in october 1008 and then order ing his chauffeur to speed away appeared to-day in the eleventh chamber of the cor rectional court where the case was re tried when the former judgment was entered mr hyde was on an automobile trip in the riviera on his return to paris he entered opposition to the judg j meut and a retrial was granted i mr hyde was accompanied in court by his chauffeur who also had been sentenced to serve a month in jail and to pay a fine of 30 the complainant m magagne repeated bis version of the accident telling â€¢ how mr n.vde had instructed his chauffeur to speed invay the driver of the taxicaa in which he was riding at the time of the accident took the number of mr hyde's automobile two witnesses labrosse and j boucher he added were present and hea-il ! mr hyde say to his chauffeur filez i fiiix which means get away quick or words to that effect mr hyde's law fc ver here pointed out that these two witnesses who gave evidence at the first trial had failed to present them selves to-day while the taxicab driver had | disappeared without replying to the magis trate's summons mme hochon a middle-aged woman who was in hyde's auto at the time of the ac cident testified that after the collision mr hyde a man servant and the chauf feur descended and examined the injuries done i remained in the automobile said the witness mr hyde remained away fully five minutes before he returned when he did return he said it's noth ing " mr hyde was the next witness Â£__ de nied that he said filez fileÂ»r 58 sfe chauffeur af this juncture the case was postponed the tribunal accepting the procurer's rep resentative's suggestion that it was desir able to find the missing witnesses the police were ordered to make a thor ough search for the witnesses and when they are found and when the tribunal is again constituted as it was to-day the case will be resumed the general opinion in court was that this was likely to happen on the greek kalends which do not occur in any mouth in any year robs woman at own door parse snateher chased liy victim dozen cases in two weeks while about to enter her home last night mrs a h phelps 1318 foster avenue was attacked ity a man who seized her pocketbook containing s2 she chased him for several blocks but he escaped about a dozen women have had their pocketbooks stolen in this district within the past few weeks but the police have suppressed the reports several persons who were walk ing in the street at the time saw the theft and joined mrs phelps in the pursuit but the robber escaped hurls bomb injures 9 thrower lcscai.es and mystery shrouds caseâ€”one will die wooxsockkt r 1 july 3.â€”a dyna mite bomb thrown into the midst of a crowd surrounding a street vender to-night injured nine persons one ot whom will die the bomb thrower was not arrested and the cause of the throwing of the missile is a mystery yachts capsize and collide 25 thrown into lake accidents and rescues wit nessed by social leaders on columbia and Chicago . club verandas to see races e a rossing's sloop is blown over and sunk six men on the delight are knocked overboard by the Illinois c w thiemeyer's freebooter with five aboard loses tiller the minnehaha goes to pieces off whiting ind xine racing yachts were disabled one be ing sunk another yacht was capsized a ' trading schooner was completely wrecked ! find twenty-five men were rescued from ! death during the gale which raged on the , lake yesterday most of the mishaps oc . curred in the sailing of the annual races . of the lake michigan yachting association . under the auspices of the columbia yacht [ club the race was a terrific battle with v . a ripping wind and a turbulent sea the schooner that went to pieces was the . minnehaha which broke np oft whiting , ind after a heart-breaking all-night fight j for life by her crew of two men they . were rescued with a rope while the racing yachts downtown were . having their troubles a twenty-one-foot i sailboat capsized off evanston and her . crew of three had narrow escapes from drowning t.hey were saved after a thrill i ing automobile dash by the crew of the b'trehwood life-saving station which was , without its boat at the time and which , drove to the evanston yacht club and put , out in an auxiliary boat that had beeu left i there for repairs the yacht races were a panorama of perils society sees accidents the accidents and the rescues were plainly i accidents and the rescues were plainly visible from the crowded verandas of the columbia and Chicago yacht clubs where scores of social leaders were gathered the water lashed to fury by a wind which reached a velocity of nearly thirty i five miles an hour tossed the big sailing sloops about like so many corks waves which ran mountain high at times ob scured all but the topsails from view . m the larita blown over the most serious accident occurred when the larita a thirty-five-foot sloop owned by edward a rosing went down just off the north pier a small hurricane brought the mainsail down with a crash and turned the sloop over the occupants mr ros ing harry conover and dr midddcton were thrown into the water they were rescued with difficulty by a steam launch the sloop sank in sixty feet of water and was later anchored to the pier with ropes for more than two hours five men on the yawl delight drifted about when it was disabled in a collision with the yacht Illinois near the carter harrison crib the life saving crew at the mouth of the river rescued the men and towed the disabled craft which had been entered in the thir ty-live-foot yawl class back to the harbor after a battle with the wind and waves _| the owners of the yacht harold c _â– wheeler v w hegeman charles c i bronson and a t curry who are mem h bers of the jackson park and Chicago vj yacht clubs were in the craft which was being guided through the heavy sea by skipper mcmaster the yawl was plowing through the trough on its second leg of the course when the Illinois passed her astern although the delight had the right of way fail to help delight crew the latter craft before it could be brought to struck the Illinois on the star board side and the force of the collision broke the delight's bowsprit and caused other damage which put her out of the race the Illinois was also damaged and put out of the race after the accident the crew of the Illinois threw a line to the crew of the delight but owing to the heavy sea the latter crew was unable to grasp it the Illinois sailed back to the harbor and notified members of the Chicago yacht club and they telephoned to captain car land in charge of the life-saving crew but found that the latter had already started to the assistance of the delight having witnessed the accident through glasses before captain cnrland and bis crew reached the disabled yacht in their motor boat the sailing craft had drifted nearly ten miles the yacht's crew was busy trying to prevent the mainmast froif ffÂ»u ing from place as it had been loosened v i the collision v the freebooter owned by c w thie k mcycr of the columbia yacht club lost her v tiller and was towed to shore by the yawl â– i kaida owned by soule bros the dis " abled boat had live passengers all of whom had narrow escapes from being thrown off the pitching sloop six on boat that is rammed the evanston owned by j a lee end carrying six passengers was rammed by the chiboouiic owned by r p stirton and _ mwm continued on page 11 2d column continued on 6th page 2d column i'll a iff weather forecast t Chicago and vicinity fair i sunday and probably monday y a slowly rising temperatrue easterly jj winds becoming variable if you want anything it will pay you to look arao-g the want ads in the classified section they compose a directory of bargains among the classifications to be found are : help wanted musical instruments situations wanted lost and found rooms to rent barter and exchange business chances . farm lands etc it will pay you to read the classified ads every day this edition consists of i iâ€”hxws.1 â€” hxws 4 â€” editorta-d f^a s â€” autos resorts w sports music tj 3 â€” classitied sâ€”magazine.5 â€” magazine ) r 3 e come lift

Chicago examiner vol x no i a m sunday c * * * Chicago july 4 1909 sunday price five cents fourth begins sane in Chicago still tetanus serum is held ready police ambulances prepared to render immediate assist ance to wounded house burned already folk dances to be held in lincoln park fireworks forbidden to-day promptly at midnight Chicago began the celebration of the sanest fourth of july in its history wrapped almost in silence was the city the usual big saturday night crowds were on the street the merrymakers were out the evening before independence day al ways has been the time when patriotic en thusiasm ran the highest and especially was this always the case when that evening happened to be saturday evening but last night all was different only here and there downtown was heard the desultory popping of the noisy spitting firecracker no revolver shots punctuated the night air no roman candles or sky rockets blazed a patchway across the heav ens as they always have done heretofore in ihc residence districts practically the same quiet prevailed city quiet as country town Chicago comparatively was more quiet than a small country town it was a fourth of july ushered in with less noise and with less enthusiasm than any that liu e gone before judging from last night Chicago is going to make good on the proposition to cele brate independence day of 1900 in a per fectly sober serious manner what sunday will bring forth in the way of celebrations and whether the small boy and also the boy of larger growth can curb his enthusiasm and patriotism on monday when the real celebration takes place are questions for the future this ir the fourth of july but don't shoot , to-morrow is the only day on which it is permissible to shoot off anything and if you must shoot then remember that a grain of powder beneath the skin is more than liable to bring on tetanus that te tanus kills and that the health department has been working overtime to conserve the population of Chicago and give heed to its dth of july warnings all signs point to a less noisy and fatal celebration of the nation's birth than chi cago has ever experienced thanks to the efforts of the sane fourth association and the new laws forbidding the sale or use of high explosives toy pistols detonating canes blank cartridges and other things dangerous to life and limb the police promise to enforce the new prohibitive laws without fear or favor but there were evidences last night in various parts of the city that the proclamation limiting the discharge of fireworks to mon day was being rather freely ignored premature celebration burns home premature celebration resulted in the destruction of a two-story frame house at 2145 west thirty-eighth street by fire and the narrow escape from death of willie brady nine years old who lives with his parents iu the rear of the building the boy was playing with a number of companions in the back yard they had obtained firecrackers from a neighboring store and were shooting them off when a spark ignited a bunch of hay that was scat tered underneath the house and about the yard at sight of the flames the boy ran about trying to extinguish the blaze before noti fying any one and his clothing caught fire his cries attracted the attention of his par ents who smothered the blazing clothes the boy will recover the building was damaged to the extent of 3,000 acting chief of police schuettler has is sued orders to all commanding officers however to spread plain clothes men throughout their districts to watch for vio lators of the law will watch fireworks dealers they are expected to arrest all prema ture celebrants and to keep a close watch on fireworks dealers any crowd to-night and to-morrow may contain a detective on the alert for persons using proscribed noise makers ignorance of the law will be no excuse for old or young eight health department ambulances will be supplied with tetauus anti-toxin to-mor row the serum also will be for sale at cost at the department offices 15 madi son street persons too poor to pay for the antitoxin will be given it free through their physicians it may be obtained at the harrison street hyde park south chi cago stock yards desplaines street west Chicago avenue Chicago avenue and shef field avenue tolice stations many furies will work to keep this year's celebration sane the power ot the pulpit has been in voked and every pastor and sunday school superintendent is expected to spread the anti-shooting gospel to-day many eele bi'iiticas out of the city which do not in clude fireworks will be held to-morrow two concerts in lincoln park the lincoln park board has lent a hand by announcing two concerts for monday by johnny hand's band also there will be athletic games dancing contests and hag drills one of the features will be a folk dince participated in by swedish dean twins escape death in thrilling auto race as car crashes into a phone pole ; cecil serre probably fatally hurt in trying to avoid - big roadster new york july 3 ln a thrilling auto-j mobile race near stamford conn early to-day betweeeu the famous dean twins of Chicago cecil serre son of dr j e serre of 63 west thirty-eighth street man hattan was seriously injured the acci dent happened at the ehd of the contest when young serre who was piloting one of the cars crashed into a telephone pole to avoid collision with a huge roadster miss evelyn dean who sat at the driver's side suffered from shock but her physi cians declared she had uot received au in jur v the race took place in sound bench ave nue the entrants were a large limousine owned by walter hughes of new york and a massive touring car the property of edgar gibs murphy mr serre was driv ing mr murphy's machine iu company with miss dean who with her sister became famous throughout america because of their exceptional beauty and charm of man ner mr murphy was the other occupant in the big limousine were mr and mrs hughes the latter the closest of the dean sisters the couple have a cottage at sound beach and mr murphy spent sev eral days there as their guest the two parties went out for a short run late fri day night and during the course of the evening the question of the superiority of the respective cars arose twins urge pilots on mr murphy boasted that his was a car of speed and mr hughes declared he did not believe his could beat mr serre volunteered to pilot the murphy machine j for a race and the younger miss dean volunteered to sit at his side they had j been through some wooded lanes and as j both machines were coining into sound | beach avenue mrs hughes yelled out to j her husband to turn on his speed and miss ! dean egged mr serre on for more than a mile the two cars went side by side passing everything in their path and leaving huge clouds of dust in j their wake they were going at a terri-j fie rate of speed until the end of th ave-j nue was reached the street terminates in another that [ makes a right angle with it there are two sharp turns at the intersection but in | the darkness mr seere who had left the hughes party behind discerned another i roadster coming cast his pace was so great he could not turn out of the way ; mr hughes switched bis car westward and brought it to a stop just as the third tour ; ing vehicle whisked by mr serre swerved suddenly in an effort to avoid what seemed [ an inevitable collision in doing so he shot the machine through a small trian gular park covered at the extreme end â€¢ with shrubbery and bushes a few feet j beyond there stood the telephone pole into \ which the vehicle crashed at great speed i serre thrown twenty feet h mr serre was thrown fully twenty feet ; ' while mr murphy and the young woman ! landed just in front of the car immcdl ately scores of people hurried to the scene from nearby and mr hughes ran ! to the home of a neighboring physician : for aid miss dean it was found after examina tion had simply been shocked and she ' took a seat in her brother-in-law's car mr murphy recovered almost instantly and aided the physician in treating young serre it was found he had a dislocated shoul : der two broken ribs many bruises and ' probably a slight fracture of the skull it was said to-night that his chances ap ' peared to be excellent for recovery but it ! would require several days to determine ' whether he had suffered any internal in ' juries if so the physicians believe he 'â– may die the car in which the party | rode was smashed to bits these are the famous former chi cago beauties who urged on auto race that nearly ended in death forgan denounces consolidation tale amazed at publication that first national has an in terest in merger president james b forgan of the first national bank made emphatic denial yes terday that his bank was considering the absorption of the bankers national you may say for me and please state it strongly that ail printed and verbal re ports of this bank taking over the bankers national are pure fabrication said mr forgan in plain english the originators of these reports are lying on friday the tribune and the record herald printed a story that the first na tional was considering taking over the bankers national and that negotiations were in progress after interviewing mr forgan and receiving flat denials that the first national was meddling in the projected merger between the bankers and the commercial national the tribune and the record-herald came out again yes terday and reiterated the tale this aroused mr forgan to the foregoing ex pression we have received no offer from the bankers and we have made none he further stated there have been no negotiations tentative or otherwise be tween us we the first national for our part have never thought of such a deal much less entertained it and what i now say to you i said to roberts of the commercial national over tlie telephone as a warning not to be in fluenced in his negotiations with the bank ers people we appear to have been brought into the deal by some cunning person to hasten the trade on between the commercial and the bankers very likely the disseminators of the report thought better terms could be made if it was sup posed that the first national also was a bidder we have no more intention of getting the bankers national bank than we have of taking over the business of the angto l.'hinese bank of kong kong i was called up by the Chicago trib une at my home last night and told that the economist would print figures that had been submitted with a view of a merger between the bankers and our selves i wouder how the tribune knew what the economist was going to say 1 told the tribune exactly what i am say ing now again the record-herald stated yester day that the hankers directors had held a meeting at which terms to be submitted to us were formulated that it had been intimated to the directory we would con sider such a proposition i am amazed that these things should be printed in the face of authoritative denial illustrative of mr forgau's interest in the merger is his departure yesterday for a month's vacation in northern michigan no further steps were taken yesterday toward a unification of the commercial and the bankers president roberts of the commercial said no meetings would be held until about the middle of this week those who have been in negotiation re iterated the opuiion that the deal would be cousummutedsafter a few more confer ences v king's insurance raised ordered to marten imil looks so bnd companies fear hisk special cable to the sunday examiner london july 3 as a res>lt of the con sultation between dr ott and the king's medical advisers it has been decided that the king shall go to marienbad immediate ly after the cowes regatta his majesty recently impressed upon the officers of the royal household the necessity of saving himself and the queen all unnecessary fatigue those who have seen the king during the past week have remarked how much he had failed iu appearance his deterioration in health is reflected on the insurance bourses which now insist on a ou per cent premium on his life whereas a few months ago only 23 per cent was asked five in endurance walk loir limit put oil thlrty-five-mile jauut to r.lsrjn a in an effort to establish the extent of their vitality and endurance five young men started from . irving park boulevard and robey street for a thirty-flve-miie walk last night at 9:30 o'clock their ob jective point being elgin all five started with the determination to cover the dis tance inside of nine hours they are selraer g olsen theodore dillington ieorge nelson axel nelson and theodore olsen electrocuted in midair woman aeronaut canght in wires dnrllij ascension lowell mich july 3.â€”mrs dell melx well an aeronaut of grand hapids was electrocuted to-day before a holiday crowd while making an ascension here her body caught among high tension wires as the balloon rose and was torn away from it tho woman was dead when rescuers reached the sceue gingles jury cries as girl tells plot lacemaker swears miss bar rette tried to sell her to french lick man new witness is found i , _ says she was hired to smug gle lace in accused girl's room r the bars in the gingles case were let down yesterday klla gingles the little irish ineeuiaker who is on trial in judge brentano's court charged with larceny told amid sobs probably the most sensa tional story that a judge and jury ever listened to in Chicago under the questioning of her counsel p h o'donnell the eighteen-year-old girl re lated the tale of her alleged mistreatment in a room in the wellington hotel on wa basih avenue on the evening of january 4 last it was a story involving hiss agnes bar rette proprietor of the lace shop in the wellington hotel building mrs cecelia kenyon the mystery of whose sudden death in a road house on stony island ave nue a week ago has not been cleared up and a man who up to this time is nameless it was a story for the most part that cannot be printed it caused the judge i to hide his face behind his handkerchief it caused tears to flow down the cheeks of more than one of the jurors it was told only with tho greatest hesitation women formed a large part of the crowd in the little courtroom they drank in ev i ery word of the testimony of the laee | maker men blushed as they listened to it j reveals white slave plot | the girl told in addition to the story of the attack upon ber in the room in i the wellington of the attempt which miss j barrette and mrs kenyon are alleged to j have roads to induce her to go to french ! i.ick springs ind there to become prac i ticalfy a white slave they told me i would not have to i work said the witness and that i would j have lots of money and could always wear ' good clothes miss barrette promised me ia black itress of hers if i would go i to trench lick yet when willi bad adjourned for the day witli hie girl witness still undergoing | a grilling cross-examination at the hands iof assistant state's attorney short that ; official said j i nm convinced that the sensational i story that etta gingles told in court was faked up either by herself or by some in genious person acting for her miss bar rette will take the witness stand and will swear that the story is made out of whole cloth she will deny every specific alle gation from start to finish i expect to be able to prove that the gingles girl has a reputation for untruthfulness and will j have witnesses to swear that they would j not believe her under oath the assistant state's attorney took miss i ( jingles in hand after she bad told her i story he fired one question after another ! at the trembling girl on the witness stand | he succeeded in getting her much con fused and in having her involve herself in a maze of contradictory statements miss barrette petrified miss gingles told again the story of her life since coming to america from ireland she told of her places of employment and of how she finally had secured work with miss barrette then she told the story of the lace on the charge of stealing which she is now on trial but the girl declared that it was she who had beeu robbed and not miss barrette and this led up to the sensational story of the night in the hotel that she told during the latter part of the young girl's testimony miss barrette as she heard one accusation after another leveled at her sat like one petrified her face was blanched her eyes were staring she made no sijfn no move after the adjournment of court until tuesday morning attorney o'donnell unexpectedly received confirmation of the statement that repeatedly has been made by klla gingles that she was the victim of a plot and that instead of having robbed miss barrette the latter robbed her a woman who said her first name was margaret but who would not give her last name called up mr o'donnell and told the following story i am the woman who was hired by miss barrette to take a bundle containing lace to miss gingles room either on jan uary 2 or 3 miss barrette paid me 5 for doing the job and sent a man with me in addition to the 5 she offered me a trip to st louis i had known her for some time and had often done odd jobs for her when i took the lace to the room on la salle avenue i did not know to whose room i was going nor did i know ella gingles it was not until i saw the story in the papers some time later that i knew what i had done takes lace to girl's room how did you get into the room asked mr o'donnell the man who was with me went in and i followed was the answer my instructions were to go with the man and take the bundle wÂ«s any one with miss barrette at the time she hired you to do the job yes there was a woman about forty five years old v.ith gray hair in the room the story was told to the attorney amid sobs the lawyer repeatedly asked the woman at the telephone to become a wit ness for ella giugles i can't i can't she repeated time and again i am going to be married and if it was known tihat i was iu any way promise harriman years of activity vienna specialists tell him they can conquer finan cier's nerve trouble no danger at present x-ray expert however di agnoses the case as one of slight paralysis vienna july 3.â€”professor adolf struem : pell visits e h harriman every third day at semmering the health resort in the austrian alps at the first examination the famous special â€¢. ist on nervous diseases learned that mr harriman was suffering from nervous prostratiou which however had been im proved by his voyage and his journeying in europe professor struempell also saw that some thing else than nerve fag affects mr hai rininn who has a slight difficulty iu mov ing his legs and walks stiffly so struem _ pell called in professor holzkuecht a spe cialist in making examinations with the roetengeu rays holzkuecht examined the millionaire's spinal column to learn if dis ease bad caused any alteration in the structure of his vertebrae he saw plainly changes in the vertebrae which affect the nerves issuing from the spinal cord and so cause primarily the slight paralysis of the patient's lower limbs promises prostration cure struempell promises mr harriman to ] j cure him of nervous prostration which of course is the lesser of his two ailments i the cold water treatment and the tonic air j of semmering which is 3,000 feet above sea level will brace mr harriman up and he will soon be able to work as hard as he pleases already rest has worked won ders toward restoring him professor struempell tells mr harriman frnnkty that his slight paralysis m-iy be 1-elleved but not cured electric baths carbonic acid gas and mineral baths will effect this relief the professor hopes and he assures mr harriman that even if the i paralysis progresses it will do so very slowly and need not affect his general | health when mr harriman took his first elee jtrlc bath to-day at semmering he said jjesttngly to the hotel physician dr siegel i if yon are going to kill me you had j better let me sell my bonds first as after my death they would not be worth so i i much then you can tell my secretary i miller to go ahead and write my biogra phy it's fashionable now yon know for i everybody w'ho has made a few millions to j write their confessions " feeling better says patient harriman says he is now feeling better than ever he will take electric and car bonic acid baths daily the latter is sim ply a warm bath containing two pounds of carbonic acid the electric baths are ap i plied in a tub of warm water | professor struempell has instructed mr | harriman to obtain all the rest possible j and to eschew society so the financier | patient is not receiving any visitors when the weather permits mr and mrs i harriman and secretary miller drive into | the country mr miller went to badga stein to-day where he engaged a suite of eleveu rooms in the hotel de 1 europe when mr harriman was in vienna a day or two ago secretary reeves of the ameri can embassy offered to present him to emperor francis joseph mr harriman declined the honor because his physicians had instructed him to avoid everything tending to create any excitement judge dies at ball game christopher masree snccnmhs to apo plexy at pittshnrgr pittsburg pa july 3.â€”former judge christopher magee one of the best known jurists in pennsylvania died suddenly from apoplexy at the baseball game between Chicago and pittsburg here to-day he had attended the game accompanied by his son walter p magee and christopher ma gee 11 and during the practice of the pittsburg players complained of feeling ill he soon became unconscious and died de spite the efforts of dr bird the chib phy sician deny ben franklin honor french declnre that n physician invented the l.i|_litniii_v rod paris july 3 france has declined to recognize benjamin franklin as the in ventor of the lightning rod claiming that that honor belongs to n french physician named jacques de romas who announced in 1750 two years before franklin a means of diverting lightning the french academy of sciences in 1764 recognized romas claim to priority and now presi dent fallieres has accepted the chairman ship of a committee formed to erect a monument to romas as the inventor of the lightning rod james hazen hyde on trial in paris hyde again on trial in auto in jury case former insurance man once sentenced gets seemingly indefinite delay paris july 3 james hazeu hyde of now york formerly vice president of the i equitable life assurance society who was i condemned on may 1 last in default to j serve a month in prison and to pay a fine ' of 100 for injuring a man with his auto ! mobile in october 1008 and then order ing his chauffeur to speed away appeared to-day in the eleventh chamber of the cor rectional court where the case was re tried when the former judgment was entered mr hyde was on an automobile trip in the riviera on his return to paris he entered opposition to the judg j meut and a retrial was granted i mr hyde was accompanied in court by his chauffeur who also had been sentenced to serve a month in jail and to pay a fine of 30 the complainant m magagne repeated bis version of the accident telling â€¢ how mr n.vde had instructed his chauffeur to speed invay the driver of the taxicaa in which he was riding at the time of the accident took the number of mr hyde's automobile two witnesses labrosse and j boucher he added were present and hea-il ! mr hyde say to his chauffeur filez i fiiix which means get away quick or words to that effect mr hyde's law fc ver here pointed out that these two witnesses who gave evidence at the first trial had failed to present them selves to-day while the taxicab driver had | disappeared without replying to the magis trate's summons mme hochon a middle-aged woman who was in hyde's auto at the time of the ac cident testified that after the collision mr hyde a man servant and the chauf feur descended and examined the injuries done i remained in the automobile said the witness mr hyde remained away fully five minutes before he returned when he did return he said it's noth ing " mr hyde was the next witness Â£__ de nied that he said filez fileÂ»r 58 sfe chauffeur af this juncture the case was postponed the tribunal accepting the procurer's rep resentative's suggestion that it was desir able to find the missing witnesses the police were ordered to make a thor ough search for the witnesses and when they are found and when the tribunal is again constituted as it was to-day the case will be resumed the general opinion in court was that this was likely to happen on the greek kalends which do not occur in any mouth in any year robs woman at own door parse snateher chased liy victim dozen cases in two weeks while about to enter her home last night mrs a h phelps 1318 foster avenue was attacked ity a man who seized her pocketbook containing s2 she chased him for several blocks but he escaped about a dozen women have had their pocketbooks stolen in this district within the past few weeks but the police have suppressed the reports several persons who were walk ing in the street at the time saw the theft and joined mrs phelps in the pursuit but the robber escaped hurls bomb injures 9 thrower lcscai.es and mystery shrouds caseâ€”one will die wooxsockkt r 1 july 3.â€”a dyna mite bomb thrown into the midst of a crowd surrounding a street vender to-night injured nine persons one ot whom will die the bomb thrower was not arrested and the cause of the throwing of the missile is a mystery yachts capsize and collide 25 thrown into lake accidents and rescues wit nessed by social leaders on columbia and Chicago . club verandas to see races e a rossing's sloop is blown over and sunk six men on the delight are knocked overboard by the Illinois c w thiemeyer's freebooter with five aboard loses tiller the minnehaha goes to pieces off whiting ind xine racing yachts were disabled one be ing sunk another yacht was capsized a ' trading schooner was completely wrecked ! find twenty-five men were rescued from ! death during the gale which raged on the , lake yesterday most of the mishaps oc . curred in the sailing of the annual races . of the lake michigan yachting association . under the auspices of the columbia yacht [ club the race was a terrific battle with v . a ripping wind and a turbulent sea the schooner that went to pieces was the . minnehaha which broke np oft whiting , ind after a heart-breaking all-night fight j for life by her crew of two men they . were rescued with a rope while the racing yachts downtown were . having their troubles a twenty-one-foot i sailboat capsized off evanston and her . crew of three had narrow escapes from drowning t.hey were saved after a thrill i ing automobile dash by the crew of the b'trehwood life-saving station which was , without its boat at the time and which , drove to the evanston yacht club and put , out in an auxiliary boat that had beeu left i there for repairs the yacht races were a panorama of perils society sees accidents the accidents and the rescues were plainly i accidents and the rescues were plainly visible from the crowded verandas of the columbia and Chicago yacht clubs where scores of social leaders were gathered the water lashed to fury by a wind which reached a velocity of nearly thirty i five miles an hour tossed the big sailing sloops about like so many corks waves which ran mountain high at times ob scured all but the topsails from view . m the larita blown over the most serious accident occurred when the larita a thirty-five-foot sloop owned by edward a rosing went down just off the north pier a small hurricane brought the mainsail down with a crash and turned the sloop over the occupants mr ros ing harry conover and dr midddcton were thrown into the water they were rescued with difficulty by a steam launch the sloop sank in sixty feet of water and was later anchored to the pier with ropes for more than two hours five men on the yawl delight drifted about when it was disabled in a collision with the yacht Illinois near the carter harrison crib the life saving crew at the mouth of the river rescued the men and towed the disabled craft which had been entered in the thir ty-live-foot yawl class back to the harbor after a battle with the wind and waves _| the owners of the yacht harold c _â– wheeler v w hegeman charles c i bronson and a t curry who are mem h bers of the jackson park and Chicago vj yacht clubs were in the craft which was being guided through the heavy sea by skipper mcmaster the yawl was plowing through the trough on its second leg of the course when the Illinois passed her astern although the delight had the right of way fail to help delight crew the latter craft before it could be brought to struck the Illinois on the star board side and the force of the collision broke the delight's bowsprit and caused other damage which put her out of the race the Illinois was also damaged and put out of the race after the accident the crew of the Illinois threw a line to the crew of the delight but owing to the heavy sea the latter crew was unable to grasp it the Illinois sailed back to the harbor and notified members of the Chicago yacht club and they telephoned to captain car land in charge of the life-saving crew but found that the latter had already started to the assistance of the delight having witnessed the accident through glasses before captain cnrland and bis crew reached the disabled yacht in their motor boat the sailing craft had drifted nearly ten miles the yacht's crew was busy trying to prevent the mainmast froif ffÂ»u ing from place as it had been loosened v i the collision v the freebooter owned by c w thie k mcycr of the columbia yacht club lost her v tiller and was towed to shore by the yawl â– i kaida owned by soule bros the dis " abled boat had live passengers all of whom had narrow escapes from being thrown off the pitching sloop six on boat that is rammed the evanston owned by j a lee end carrying six passengers was rammed by the chiboouiic owned by r p stirton and _ mwm continued on page 11 2d column continued on 6th page 2d column i'll a iff weather forecast t Chicago and vicinity fair i sunday and probably monday y a slowly rising temperatrue easterly jj winds becoming variable if you want anything it will pay you to look arao-g the want ads in the classified section they compose a directory of bargains among the classifications to be found are : help wanted musical instruments situations wanted lost and found rooms to rent barter and exchange business chances . farm lands etc it will pay you to read the classified ads every day this edition consists of i iâ€”hxws.1 â€” hxws 4 â€” editorta-d f^a s â€” autos resorts w sports music tj 3 â€” classitied sâ€”magazine.5 â€” magazine ) r 3 e come lift